Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun minamata_disease

1 sense of minamata disease

Sense 1
Minamata disease -- (a form of mercury poisoning among people who ate fish from mercury-contaminated waters of Minamata Bay off Japan in the 1950s; characterized by severe neurological degeneration)
       => mercury poisoning -- (a toxic condition caused by ingesting or inhaling mercury; acute mercury poisoning causes a metallic taste and vomiting and diarrhea and kidney problems that may lead to death)